Principal Standards Program Manager

Awards | Society of Motion Flick and Television Engineers

Gary J. Sullivan Receives the SMPTE Digital Processing Medal

Award citation: The 2019 Digital Processing Medal is awarded to Gary J. Sullivan in recognition of his innovation and industry leadership in image and video pinch. Sullivan has been one of the most instrumental figures in video codec standards development, chairing the Joint Video Team for the development of H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, the Joint Collaborative Squad on Video Coding for the development of High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), and the Joint Video Experts Squad currently…

Awards | Academy of Telly Arts & Sciences

Gary J. Sullivan Leads JCT-VC to 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard

The Academy of Boob tube Arts & Sciences presented a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in 2017 to the Joint Collaborative Squad on Video Coding (JCT-VC), an engineering experts' group led by co-chairs Gary J. Sullivan of Microsoft and Jens-Rainer Ohm of RWTH Aachen University, for the development of the Loftier Efficiency Video Coding Standard (HEVC, a.1000.a. H.265 and ISO/IEC 23008-2). "These Emmy Awards are presented to an individual, a visitor, or an organization for developments in…

Awards | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Gary J. Sullivan Receives the IEEE Trans. CSVT 2017 Best Paper Award

Gary J. Sullivan received the 2017 IEEE Trans. CSVT All-time Paper Award, together with co-authors Thiow Keng Tan, Rajitha Weerakkody, Marta Mrak, Naeem Ramzan, Vittorio Baroncini, and Jens-Rainer Ohm, for their paper "Video Quality Evaluation Methodology and Verification Testing of HEVC Compression Performance", published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Engineering science, vol. 26, no. i, pp. 76-90, September 2015.

Awards | International Commission for It Standards

Gary J. Sullivan Receives INCITS Merit Accolade

Gary J. Sullivan received the Merit Award of the International Committee for Data Technology Standards (INCITS) in 2015. This is an award presented to no more than 4 participants per year who have demonstrated continuous support for the work of INCITS. The award letter said that Sullivan's "contributions to the MPEG family of standards are unparalleled."

Awards | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Gary J. Sullivan Receives the IEEE Trans. CSVT 2013 Best Newspaper Award

Gary J. Sullivan received the 2013 IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper Award, together with co-authors Jens-Rainer Ohm, Woo-Jin Han, and Thomas Wiegand, for their paper "Overview of the Loftier Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard", published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Applied science, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1649-1668, December 2012.

Awards | Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers

Gary J. Sullivan Receives the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Technical Field Award

The IEEE Masaru Consumer Electronics award is Technical Field Award given annually by the IEEE Board of Directors "to recognize outstanding contributions in the field of consumer electronics technology". Sullivan received this award in 2012 "For leadership and technical contributions to the evolution of the globally deployed video coding standard H.264/MPEG4-AVC", together with co-recipients Thomas Wiegand and Gisle Bjøntegaard. (The Ibuka award is an IEEE Field Award from the Board of Directors level of the…

Awards | University of Louisville J. B. Speed School of Engineering

Gary J. Sullivan Receives the J. B. Speed Professional Award in Electric Applied science

In 2009, Gary J. Sullivan received the J. B. Speed Professional Award in Electrical Technology of the University of Louisville J. B. Speed School of Engineering (his alma mater institution where he had received his B.South. and M.Eng. degrees). This is an annual honour presented to a single candidate in each field of technology.